@azuredreamer24.bsky.social Yes! A TB vaccine called BCG is used worldwide, but it’s not as effective as some of the vaccines you may be used to. For that reason it’s only used in countries with high TB rates, or in people with respiratory disease or other health risks :)
It’s a single shot of a weakened form of TB (similar to the mumps and measles vaccines). One reason health depts don’t like using it is after vax you will always test positive on TB tests! But for people at risk, it’s what we have. Better vaccines on the horizon I hope :)
this is a disease that was essentially eradicated. And now the GQP has allowed it to re-enter. Unbelievable.
Wait till polio hits better warm up those iron lungs
Teachers have to get a TB test in order to be in the classroom. It makes me wonder if this will become a more targeted outbreak to disable public education.
Scary point. I just remember the pandemic, and how it divided everyone even more, and public education took a hit. 2016 was the practice run, this time is already worse.
Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Department (HCS) in Michigan has notified Kalamazoo Public Schools that someone associated with the system has tested positive for TB, and is isolated and undergoing treatment.
Articles do not identify if the infected person is a student or employee.
The GOP is already organizing TB parties so that enough infections will invoke Herd Immunity. Because it worked so well in 2021. They'll haul out the sheep drench for prophylaxis.
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Sounds familiar and over 1 million Americans died from Covid because of Trumps willful incompetence
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/whitehall-yearling-high-school-tuberculosis-case/530-6cf52fe1-56d7-4c01-acc8-b1f15f5fb3c3#:~:text=WHITEHALL%2C%20Ohio%20%E2%80%94%20Columbus%20Public%20Health,free%20testing%2C%20health%20officials%20said.
Wait till polio hits better warm up those iron lungs
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Articles do not identify if the infected person is a student or employee.
I learned of this earlier today and it’s important to get the word out, especially with the current condition of Public Health in this country.
Columbus Public Health officials were notified about the case at Whitehall-Yearling High School, near Columbus, Ohio sometime in late January.
Ohio state public health sites are saying this case does not mean there is an outbreak.